Oatmeal Nankatai/Cookies

Oatmeal has made its way to most of our kitchens with the different health benefits it provides. Though I have been buying oats for long time still I could not possibly make it a very likable to my kids. One way I discovered from Nandita’s post to cook oats the Indian way which worked well and liking possibility changed from 15% to 75% … so this was a good sign. Getting a liking to eat oats is not quite easy as for us as it has a very stale taste and after cooking makes it a little sticky. Few years ago when my hubby asked me to take it to office and use as a health drink I could never get used to the taste of the instant cereals. After travelling overseas a few times I realised everywhere I went I found Oatmeal porridge to be very comfort food and started liking it similar to having rice porridge on the breakfast table. I am still discovering different ways of cooking it to include in our day to day life. These cookies are one such snack loved by my kids.

Coming to the recipe this is a very simple nankatai which I substituted half oats and whole wheat flour.

Method: Cream sugar and butter until fluffy. Mix dry ingredients in a seperate bowl. Add dry ingredients to the sugar butter mixture.Combine well until you have a texture to form into lemon sized balls flatten it. If the mixture is too dry add few drops of milk. Do not add too much milk as it will turn to cake texture rather than a nankatai. Bake for 10-15 min at 200 C. The cookies were tasty and crisp outter edges. You can bake for few more minutes for more crisper cookies. You can add choclate chips/raisins/nuts/desicatted coconut to make it more delicious.

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nankatai with oats? what a cool idea roopa. i am not a big fan of oats and find it quite bland and sticky for my my taste. but i dont think i will mind using them in making nankatai thanku for this recipe girl…u rock

howdu me too i still have two full packs of oats, we are trying to use it, even undde tastes great sia. try madu oats idde anthanu anisolla. thks dear

wow they are so tempting. nice combination of oats & wheat flour, i’m sure the kids enjoyed nankhatai
btw i just saw ur pathrode/patra recipe again, looks so yum and as you rightly said you can make extra pathrode & use it to make the turiya-patra recipe for variety

Yeah Richa just out of the oven my daughter was just galloping …. she loves fresh cookies.Richa thanks for the tip for the turiya patra.

Roopa, I am with your kids on this one, I have never been a big fan of oats. My mom used to make it for us all the time and I hated it. That was then. Now that I am older (and not necessarily wiser (lol) ) I’ve found that there two ways that I like oat meal – as a porridge and as a dessert (something I created using a similar technique of making porridge)
Your cookies don’t look as dry and brittle as others that I’ve seen so I think I’ll give the oats a try this way

Ha ha Cynthia hmm i have started using oats only from few yrs time, in the begining even i would hate eventually now i have tried to add it to my diet but for kids we do have to come up with something of their liking so this cookie made a good way. I think if we use only oats the cookie might be very dry as you said. This is soft because of the wheat flour and butter and sametime crunchy due to oats.

I can imagine going crunch-crunch on this or dipping it into a cup of masala chai- sounds like bliss- and goes into my to-do list….my parents like traditional cookies like this as against any exotic ones…
Guess its my first time here and happy to see such a favourite cookie!

Hi Nandita Welcome and its my pleasure to have you here! You have been an inspiration for using oatmeals in uppama which had an amazing taste and even kids loved it. Thanks a tonnes to you! hope to see you again here!

Nice light bite post.Its evening here,snack time,love to munch those nankattas and I am bookmarking the recipe..Thanx for sharing a recipe which had been looking out a long,Hope you got well form your FLU>>